Mavis Staples : Rolling Stone

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Have a Little Faith

Mavis Staples, the grande dame of the legendary Staple Singers, has spent much of her solo career striving for pop crossover, but here she revisits the earthy, guitar-centered soul-gospel sound that made her group such a consciousness-raising force in the 1960s. Talk about an overdue return: She's i...

2004 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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First as gospel singers and then as a soul-pop group, the Staples family has maintained a strong following and had several pop and soul hits, usually fronted by Mavis Staples' breathy vocals. The Staples family goes back to Mississippi, where as a young man Roebuck Staples played guitar and sang in local choirs. In the mid-'30s, he and his wife, Oceola, traveled up the Mississippi River to Chicago...

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